Poll: Do you use Disqus? [Resolved]
Do you use Disqus to facilitate comments on your blog?
Do you use Disqus to comment on other websites?
Please share your experiences- good or bad - with Disqus on this thread.
Reason: Edited topic.
Valid reasons.
I am thinking from many months, 
You must have an international readership if you're thinking about installing Disqus on your blog! Indian audiences don't seem to like it!
i have a doubt what to do about old comments!
Both the answer is no for me.
thanks.
Out of curiosity, may I ask why not? Have you never come across a website you wanted to comment on and they only used Disqus?
Yes, i have, and i avoided commenting..
Is the loading time that bad for dial-up connections? Thanks for sharing the second point.
By the way, you haven't put up your blog for review here and I didn't want to include this on the Alexa review:
Please consider changing the font colour on some grey text and the green colour of some of your oldest posts. These colours make the post invisible against the current background.
I have started using disqus on my blog because it givesa more professional look to my blog. But then i recieve very few comments on my blog, but thats a different issue anyway 
What do you blog about and how often do you blog?
I remember that when @Promod had started using Disqus, his older comments vanished. Now that is a big Disadvantage, aint it?
There's an easy fix for that. You just have to merge your profiles and merge your blog's comment widget with Disqus. Please let @Promod know he can do that in minutes and recover older comments.
@arti thanks i saw that later after commenting here...
@PC The Fix should have been inbuilt without any need to be done by the user. at least mroe than 60% of the bloggers dont have technical knowledge..
btw there is no point me debating here as am happpy with my wordpress comment box! 
I have zero technical knowledge and I started blogging three weeks ago and I managed to merge both my previous user profile and my own Blogspot comments system with Disqus. It's that easy.
You can import old comments. I have not lost any comments. Yes, there is issue with loading time but I still like it
discuss s bad .. i used it for 2 months ... and then dumped it ... not so convinient and user frndly platform...and loading takes time...and sometimes i couldnt access the comment section.. dunno y ...
Thank you for sharing your experience. I installed Disqus on demand from international readers. I agree that it doesn't work that well sometimes for many people. I've never had a problem myself but I hear lots of people complaining.
of course, PC seems to be! right?
Thanks for sharing your opinion and experience, Arti. I've heard lots of users complaining about Disqus but luckily, never had any problems myself. So I wanted to hear what everybody at IndiBlogger thought about it.
@hemal: I'm gathering opinions from potential Indian readers! I installed Disqus on my blog on demand from international readers! :-)
Disqus loading issues and integration is very slow, once a way i post on disqus. I believe the perceived benefits may be worth trying to reach international audience. Let us look forward for some positive features which compell us to use Disqus
@umesh:
Benefits of Disqus:
1. It allows users to keep track of comments made across several websites.
2. It allows the blog owner to moderate and ban users
3. It builds a community through the instant communication and reply features
4. It builds a community through the "like" button.
5. People who already have Disqus profiles will be more likely to comment on your blog.
@arti - Really?
Does anyone know about this?
I think disqus has a galore of advantages..And I see many people are deeming it to have a slow loading time.
But i think relative to its competitors, disqus is a faster commenting system. (not considering the blogger default)
And it has a host of features as well.
With respect to its uploading time... i think disqus uploads in 5 seconds for good connections and about 15 seconds for weak connections.
But people don't open a post and go directly to comment, isn't it?
Visitors read the post first. So i think the loading time doesn't even matter.
Thank you for sharing this perspective, The Xeno.
Nope, sorry. I'm quite O.K. with Disqus.
To repeat myself, Disqus allows people to remain anonymous if they choose not to create an account. Leave a comment with any name and any email id.
You contradict yourself with your second point. How does a non-blogger have a blog of his own to link to via his name? Regardless, people are free to link to whatever they like in their comments. Lastly, if people have Disqus on their own blog, clicking on their Disqus profile will reveal that as one of the communities they moderate.
OK!
Disqus basically works best for a self hosted blog rather than a blogpost blog ....
Please tell me more.
Oh yeah! People REMEMBER
If you've decided to go for Disqus instead of your default blogger commenting system, think again. Disqus is absolutely wonderful as you have already found out by the above views.
Here are two negative points of disqus to think about.
- If you shift to disqus, you can import your previous blogger comments to disqus. But if you decide to shift back to the default blogger commenting system, it is almost impossible to export the comments back to blogger. If you have your own domain and are publishing through anything other than wordpress or blogger, then it might be possible for you. But that will require hell lot of a knowledge about it. And i didn't find any helpful articles on the web about this.So moving to Disqus is permanent. If you want to come back to blogger, you lose the previous comments in Disqus.
- I've had complaints that the Disqus system is extremely slow, unresponsive and difficult to operate from a mobile than the blogger default.
SO, think before you decide if you really want disqus.
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